Posts Tagged ‘movies based on books’

News – Hammer Executives Looking for Lost Footage

It is time to get out your classic Hammer horror collection and look for lost footage! The excutives at Britain’s famed Hammer horror film studios have appealed to the public to help recover lost scenes edited from classic films like The Curse Of Frankenstein and others.

News – Peruvian Horror The Evil Visitor

From Peruvian author Fernando Sobenes, comes a horror novel The Evil Visitor (El Visitante Maligno) which deals with the theme of exorcism and the vision that the Church has towards it, and the manipulation that occurs in these situations. Problems of a mental nature are conveniently used as methods of propaganda and to control the [...]

News – Tim Burton in Talks to Adapt Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. Such begins the tale of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children a novel by Ransom Riggs. The good news is, Tim Burton may direct the film adaption!

News – The Hunger Games Trailer

I am so looking forward to this movie, I heard about it a while back and have started reading the first book and it is definitely a page turner! Lionsgate has released the first full trailer for The Hunger Games, which is coming to theaters March 23, 2012. The film is the adaptation of Suzanne [...]

News – Martin Scorsese May Adapt The Snowman

Variety reports that the legendary director Martin Scorsese has expressed an interested in adapting Jo Nesbø’s The Snowman into a feature film. The Snowman is the seventh entry in Nesbø’s “Harry Hole” series.

News – Ben Affleck Set to Direct King’s The Stand Adaption

I have always hoped for a big screen adaption of King’s The Stand. I am not sure how they will pull it off, but there is good news. Ben Affleck is the man Warner Bros. is eyeing to adapt and direct The Stand, another adaptation of Stephen King’s famous novel.

News – Trailer for The Woman in Black

A while back we told you that our beloved Harry Potter, Daniel Radcliffe was to star in the gothic horror The Woman in Black. The trailer has debuted on the web and we have it for you!

News – The Exorcist 40th Anniversary Edition

It is hard to believe that 40 years have passed since William Peter Blatty unleashed his novel The Exorcist onto an unsuspecting world. Demonic Possession was a little known phenomena outside of the Catholic Church and as frightening as the subject was, it was happening to a young girl which only intensified the emotional drama [...]

News – Ghost Story In the Flesh

There is nothing more musical to my ears this time of year than to hear that a new ghost story is coming to life. This one won’t be on the screen for a while, but you can always grab your kindle and check out the book while you wait! Summit Entertainment has purchased the speculative [...]

News – First Look at Moth Diaries

  What would you do if your roommate was a Vampire? That is the premise of Mary Harron’s (American Psycho) Moth Diaries. The film will be playing at the Toronto Internation Film Festival and some brand new images have hit the web along with a lengthy synopsis. Read on and check them out.